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Plasma recipient going home Michael Kevin Rathel, an Orlando man who was in a medically-induced coma and on a ventilator due to COVID-19, is back home after receiving a life-saving convalescent plasma. ORLANDO, Fla. - With their faces covered in masks, countless doctors, nurses and staff from Orlando Health lined that path cheering as Michael…

A Pennsylvania hospital allegedly used the open bed of a pickup truck to transport bodies in broad daylight Sunday afternoon amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report on Monday.Upon arrival at the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office, the driver of the Ford F-150 XLT was captured unloading the bodies to be taken inside one of the facility's three refrigerated trailers.The…

April 20, 2020 | 7:35pm New York’s largest hospital system is giving 45,0000 of its “heroic” workers lump sum $2,500 bonuses and a paid week off for fighting the coronavirus epidemic, it announced Monday — as Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged the feds to provide “hazard pay” to other front-line workers. “Our dedicated staff’s response to…

3 Bay Area counties share data in report published by CDC By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Updated 2:22 pm PDT, Monday, April 20, 2020 FILE: EMTs move a stretcher at the Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center on Thursday, April 9, 2020, in Hayward, Calif. FILE: EMTs move a stretcher at the Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center on…

By Storm Gifford New York Daily News | Apr 18, 2020 | 7:29 PM This is an undated photo of Simha Benshai (center), who died from coronavirus at a Tel Aviv hospital.(Elisheva Stern/AP) While thousands of loved ones around the world are denied the opportunity to say final goodbyes to dying coronavirus victims, one Israeli…